Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Lunch today was two big spoons of the chilli I made yesterday, topped with mash I made from the spuds I bought last week, then topped with grated cheddar.

I did toy with the idea of cooking it in the mini oven, but all I'd have done would've been added a lot of time to the cooking time - and - created a bit more washing up.... and I'd have to get out/put back the mini oven. So I just nuked the lot and just didn't have a brown/crispy cheese top, which is the only difference if you oven bake it.

Farway

Dinner decided, jumbo fish fingers, frozen chips & grilled wrinkly toms with lump of bread pud later

PasturesNew

Knocked up a quick 2 egg cheese omelette, chips and beans.... bit early, but what the heck

Wednesday2000

Really quick dinner when I got in from the Chinese herbalist. I roasted a tray of frozen veggies and had it with quick cook basmati rice with tamari and garlic salt over it.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

I think I'm going to get a meat mallet, I know I could bash steak with rolling pin etc but whacking with nice mallet will be more satisfying

Good call - I love mine, and bashing steak is so very stress relieving o;):). Mine has come in handy for other things as well tapping in picture hooks & plastic green house staging frames come to mind :rotfl::rotfl:


Good evening everyone,

It's turned really chilly here tonight and as have only just lit the stove I've had to pop the heating on for a bit. I didn't notice how cold it was until a wee while ago as I pottering about.
A parcel arrived earlier containing lots of plug plants, I had forgotten the first batch was coming this week so potting them on will need to be a job for tomorrow before more arrive next week:eek:. Thankfully the weather is due to be better tomorrow after it being wet & wild for most of today.

My sister came over for lunch and I made a quick pot of soup using up some rather elderly broccoli & spuds from the fridge and the end of a bag of cauli from the freezer. It was tasty and went well with the smoked salmon sarnies we had with them as I found a pack in the fridge unused from last weekend and nearing it's use by date. My sister has been busy at my Dad's so it lovely to be able to help by making her lunch and it keeps me from getting in the way! There is soup and smoked salmon LO so that will be my lunch tomorrow covered.:)
I'm not sure what I'll have for dinner but it won't involve beans or "something" on toast as I've had quite a lot of that this week. It's will probably be pasta or an oven "bung in" as I cba thinking about prepping anything else.

Brambling

Evening

Hope the dog's ok Wednesday and the bill wasn't too painful

Definitely glad it's Friday today, the last couple of days have seemed very longggg at least the dry weather has meant I got out every lunchtime, today was a little colder but a nice brisk walk cleared my head before I popped into the SM to pick up some lunch. The glass made a reappearance this morning and my foot found a very small shard on the dining room floor :eek: just as well as there was only the cat to watch me hop around swearing trying to get a very tiny shard out with my fat fingers hopefully that's the last of it.

Lunch was a beef and horseradish roll I was a little heavy handed so it cleared my sinus :eek: we then had to explain to my colleague whose from India what horseradish was, in the end I compared it to wasabi which she had heard of, I had the jar but she declined a teaspoon :rotfl: dinner was cod and HM chips with green veg, slightly healthier than the fish finger wrap I had yesterday

I picked up a YS duck crown today which was unplanned but a good price especially as on offered before YS, I will probably roast it tomorrow as I'm not sure if I want to take off the breast to freeze separately, so duck will appear over the next few days quack quack :rotfl:

caronc

Oh duck yum great to get it on YS Brambling and almost as the meat duck stock from the bones with noodles & veg sounds double yum:D
Dinner ended up as a freezer rake - HM lamb, aubergine & spinach keema from ages ago with a toasted pitta. It was lovely and felt like a "proper" dinner instead of a quick cobble together on toast:)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Oh duck yum great to get it on YS Brambling and almost as the meat duck stock from the bones with noodles & veg sounds double yum:D

Thanks for the idea Caronc . That's next week soup decided upon

Farway

Today is faff around getting new W10 PC up & running, it works fine but I now need to move programmes over or re install, bookmarks, including MSE over. PIA but needs doing, at least it's dull & a bit chilly out so not missing going anywhere

Ouch Brambling, glass found.
One reason I always wear slippers but sometimes even the best forget. My DD when younger learned the hard way about slippers, went in kitchen where puss had pooped on the floor, DD was hopping about with it between her toes:eek::D. A lesson never forgotten

Funny coincidence, I had horseradish the other day, finished the jar off. And nearly finished off the Tartare last night with the F / Fingers

Breakfast was porridge

Baking a new loaf in the Panny, long version this time to see if any big difference from a the rapid

Lunch will be last of the bacon, in BLT sarnie, maybe the new loaf or remnants of old, depends

Dinner, will be CBA on toast, probably cheesy beans


Brambling, I think our W'roses must be in sync, assuming the YS duck breast came from there, I nearly picked a YS one up on Thursday but left it. Years since I've had duck, and never been really impressed with them TBH, but on offer & YS, we've all got our price

Farway

Update, here I am on my new PC having eventually found my password
If only I could get the monitor to streeeeetch a bit;) I know how to to do it, just need to get on and peer at the buttons on the front of the CRT monitor.
Should've gone to Sp8csavers before I started this:D

Bread is finished and smells yummy, cooling on rack at the moment, looking a likely donor for lunchtime BLT sarnie